Ideas

store uploads as blob data

jd142Member

To help secure WordPress, I'd like to be able to store file uploads in the mysql database as binary blob data. This way I wouldn't have to open up ftp on the blog server and worse yet chmod 777 on a directory.

I'm really concerned about the ftp access and a suggestion that a directory be set as world writable.

But they do handle it well. I've had blob data in my mysql servers before with no problems. Since I have my own servers, I know the hardware and connection can handle it.

There's no real difference between blob data and any other large data field as far as storage and retrieval. If I write a 50k blog entry or upload a 50k jpeg, the load on mysql is going to be the same.